--- title: Leap Day 2016: Ja Rule Celebrates Birthday in Las Vegas description: He was livin' it up in Las Vegas canonical: https://time.com/4241956/leap-day-ja-rule-birthday/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-29T21:50:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:35.248Z og:title: Ja Rule Was Born on a Leap Day So He Gets to Joke About Turning 10 og:description: He was livin' it up in Las Vegas og:url: https://time.com/4241956/leap-day-ja-rule-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ja Rule Was Born on a Leap Day So He Gets to Joke About Turning 10 twitter:description: He was livin' it up in Las Vegas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ja Rule Was Born on a Leap Day So He Gets to Joke About Turning 10 by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 29, 2016 9:50 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 29, 2016 9:50 PM UTC This year’s February 29 isn’t just a [leap day](http://time.com/4237292/leap-year-leap-day-history/). It’s also the birthday of Ja Rule. Though Ja has been on this Earth for 40 years now, he’s _technically_ only 10, as he’s only had 10 birthdays. The rapper, who recently wrapped the [first season](http://www.mtv.com/shows/follow-the-rules/episode-guide) of his reality TV show, made sure to document the special day by joking that he had his “10th birthday party” in Las Vegas this weekend: Looks like the party, held at Vegas’s Foxtail Nightclub, was a pretty great time: Fun fact about Ja Rule: he[ grew up Jehovah’s Witness](http://time.com/2954051/ja-rule-book-interview/), which meant he could not celebrate birthdays as a child. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4241956/leap-day-ja-rule-birthday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4241956/leap-day-ja-rule-birthday/"},"headline":"Ja Rule Was Born on a Leap Day So He Gets to Joke About Turning 10","datePublished":"2016-02-29T21:50:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:35.248Z","description":"He was livin' it up in Las Vegas","url":"https://time.com/4241956/leap-day-ja-rule-birthday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4241956/leap-day-ja-rule-birthday/","name":"Ja Rule Was Born on a Leap Day So He Gets to Joke About Turning 10"}}]}] ```